Am I missing something here?

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Posted By: T206Collector

"Good luck, as for the rest of you that think this was a big mistake, I think you need a wake up call on how badly sellers can get screwed with on ebay."

I've got nearly 500 unique feedback as buyer and seller of T206 cards on ebay -- never a single problem. So, I do have a lot of faith in T206 collectors, perhaps too much.

But, I am not saying it was 100% a mistake. I said there was a reasonable chance it wasn't -- and I put that likelihood at under 50%.

I am not saying the guy added two zeros... I am saying he missed his period. I often add a nominal amount to my bids, to keep it off a round number. Thus, if I were going to bid $40 on something, I'd make it $41.13 or something. It would be SUPER easy to not hit the period at the right time and bid $4113 by accident. A mistake that is easy to understand.

If I had been burned as many times as Dan has, I might start to think people were out to get me, too. And, just because you think people are "out to get you" doesn't mean they aren't, to be sure. But I happen to think it is at least a likely that two ebay bidders are making stupid and careless bids, rather than conspiring to screw Dan in a junk T206 auction.